The Poulenc Trio, now in its seventh season, is the most active touring piano-wind chamber music ensemble in the world.  The Trio is dedicated to its mission to build and sustain audiences for world-class live chamber music performances.  We achieve our goal by touring extensively throughout the U.S. and around the world, through constant outreach to young and under-served listeners, and through a strong commitment to commissioning, performing and recording new works from living composers.

In a recent review, the Washington Post said the trio “does its namesake proud” in “an intriguing and beautifully played program” with “convincing elegance, near effortless lightness and grace.” A recent performance in Florida – for which the Palm Beach Post praised the group’s “polished loveliness” and the Palm Beach Daily News said the “potent combination” of oboe bassoon and piano had “captured the magic of chamber music”-was selected for rebroadcast on NPR’s Performance Today. The Trio has garnered positive attention in recent full-length profiles by Chamber Music magazine, and by the Double Reed Journal. The group has been called “virtuosos of classical and contemporary chamber music” in one profile for Russian television.

Since its founding in 2003, The Poulenc Trio has effectively doubled the repertoire available for the oboe, bassoon and piano ensemble, with 20 new works written for and premiered by the group.  Recent highlights include an the premiere in New York of the Urban Dialogues for Trio by the Georgian composer Zurab Nadareishvilli and the premiere of Italian composer Gaetano Panariello’s Concerto for Trio and Orchestra.

The Trio has also made a commitment to explore and promote musics that reflect its members’ African, Pan-American, Eastern European and Jewish roots.  Recent concerts  have featured works by Afro-Cuban jazz great Paquito D’Rivera, Mexican-American composer Carlos Medina and Russian-American composer Natalyia Medvedovskaya.